Sentient has built an artificially intelligent trader which can define its own portfolio and make its own decisions with minimal human input Sentient AI, the world’s most-funded artificial intelligence company, wants to solve the world’s most complex problems, including financial trading, pancreatic cancer and e-commerce. Chief executive and co-founder Antoine Blondeau, who helped invent the technology behind Apple’s Siri, announced it will launch its first retail partnership with US shoe retailer Shoes.com. Sentient has built an intelligent system for online shopping that does not just provide a list of recommendations, like Amazon or Asos do, but lets you have a real-time dialogue in the virtual world, just as you might do with a particularly good salesperson in a bricks-and-mortar store. In a video of the system in action, Mr Blondeau…